Rare Ty Cobb postcard draws interest
OLD-SCHOOL AND AWESOME — How many postcards have you received the past few years? Not many, we’d bet. It’s a lost form of information-sharing, considering that we’re headlong into an era where cellphones allow us to send images instantaneously.
But there was a time when the postcard world was hoppin’—when publishers printed a healthy and steady supply of picture cards designed to be “snail-mailed.” And if you liked sports, you’d find all kinds of examples. Especially popular were postcards featuring ballplayers.
On eBay in July, we spotted a beauty of an old player postcard: a Ty Cobb piece made and distributed between 1907 and 1909. It drew 91 bids and sold for $21,400, elevated by its impressive
